| Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." This utterance remains Lincoln's exposition of his theory of reconstruction, about which biographers... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...audience which listened to his voice as that of an oracle and which seemed loath to leave, he said, " It may be my duty to make some new announcement to...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." 9 The announcement was never made, for three days later he was assassinated. What would have been the... | |
| Thomas Guthrie Marquis - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 512 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such an exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become an entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." A truly statesmanlike speech this ! The heart of the man was rejoicing; he had saved his cherished... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper. CONVERSATIONS AND ANECDOTES Reported by FB Carpenter in his "Six Months at the White House with Abraham... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 458 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper. CONVERSATIONS AND ANECDOTES Reported by FB Carpenter in his "Six Months at the White House with Abraham... | |
| Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...inflexible plan. Beyond all this, he seemed to hold some scheme in reserve. " It may be my duty," he said, " to make some new announcement to the people of the...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." l 1 I have purposely omitted any lengthy discussion of Lincoln's reconstruction work, important as... | |
| Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 768 pages
...we, the loyal people, differ among ourselves as to the mode, the manner and means of reconstruction "In the present situation, as the phrase goes, it...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." [During the reading of this speech Tad had recovered from his wrath over his recent humiliation and... | |
| Wayne Whipple - Presidents - 1908 - 764 pages
...we, the loyal people, differ among ourselves as to the mode, the manner and means of reconstruction " In the present situation, as the phrase goes, it may...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." [During the reading of this speech Tad had recovered from his wrath over his recent humiliation and... | |
| James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
...exultant victors, and in a tone of the utmost soberness. "It may be my duty," he said in concluding, "to make some new announcement to the people of the...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." April 14 fell on Good Friday. It is doubtful, however, if the religious significance of the day occurred... | |
| Francis Trevelyan Miller - Presidents - 1910 - 192 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such an exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper. 143 "I desire to see the time when education, by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and integrity,... | |
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